As noted below, getimagesize will download the entire image before it checks for the requested information. This is extremely slow on large images that are accessed remotely. Since the width/height is in the first few bytes of the file, there is no need to download the entire file. I wrote a function to get the size of a JPEG by streaming bytes until the proper data is found to report the width and height:
<?php
function getjpegsize($img_loc) {
$handle = fopen($img_loc, "rb") or die("Invalid file stream.");
$new_block = NULL;
if(!feof($handle)) {
$new_block = fread($handle, 32);
$i = 0;
if($new_block[$i]=="\xFF" && $new_block[$i+1]=="\xD8" && $new_block[$i+2]=="\xFF" && $new_block[$i+3]=="\xE0") {
$i += 4;
if($new_block[$i+2]=="\x4A" && $new_block[$i+3]=="\x46" && $new_block[$i+4]=="\x49" && $new_block[$i+5]=="\x46" && $new_block[$i+6]=="\x00") {
$block_size = unpack("H*", $new_block[$i] . $new_block[$i+1]);
$block_size = hexdec($block_size[1]);
while(!feof($handle)) {
$i += $block_size;
$new_block .= fread($handle, $block_size);
if($new_block[$i]=="\xFF") {
$sof_marker = array("\xC0", "\xC1", "\xC2", "\xC3", "\xC5", "\xC6", "\xC7", "\xC8", "\xC9", "\xCA", "\xCB", "\xCD", "\xCE", "\xCF");
if(in_array($new_block[$i+1], $sof_marker)) {
$size_data = $new_block[$i+2] . $new_block[$i+3] . $new_block[$i+4] . $new_block[$i+5] . $new_block[$i+6] . $new_block[$i+7] . $new_block[$i+8];
$unpacked = unpack("H*", $size_data);
$unpacked = $unpacked[1];
$height = hexdec($unpacked[6] . $unpacked[7] . $unpacked[8] . $unpacked[9]);
$width = hexdec($unpacked[10] . $unpacked[11] . $unpacked[12] . $unpacked[13]);
return array($width, $height);
} else {
$i += 2;
$block_size = unpack("H*", $new_block[$i] . $new_block[$i+1]);
$block_size = hexdec($block_size[1]);
}
} else {
return FALSE;
}
}
}
}
}
return FALSE;
}
?>
